EPISODE · Jun 1, 2021 · 48 MIN
A Resurrected Date by Any Other Name Would Still Taste As Sweet, or, Jurassic Park in the Judean Desert
from This Week in the Ancient Near East · host thisweekintheancientneareast
Resurrection genomics sounds fancy, even a little scary, but in this case it means cultivating date trees from ancient seeds and then sequencing their genes. What do we learn about the antiquity of this ever-popular fruit? And if dates are so great, how come the tree is the symbol and not the fruit? Our panelists are torn, yet characteristically sweet and sticky. To learn more Researchers Sequence Genomes of Revived 2,000-Year-Old Date Palms http://www.sci-news.com/genetics/judean-date-palm-genomes-09627.html
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Resurrection genomics sounds fancy, even a little scary, but in this case it means cultivating date trees from ancient seeds and then sequencing their genes. What do we learn about the antiquity of this ever-popular fruit? And if dates are so great, how come the tree is the symbol and not the fruit? Our panelists are torn, yet characteristically sweet and sticky. To learn more Researchers Sequence Genomes of Revived 2,000-Year-Old Date Palms http://www.sci-news.com/genetics/judean-date-palm-genomes-09627.html
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